Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless actionand(2) is likely to incite or produce such action.<\/p>
“Hey, we should round up all the Jews and put them in concentration camps.”<\/p>
Not Incitement.<\/p>
“There’s a Jew, grab him!”<\/p>
Incitement.<\/p>
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Distasteful? Sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deserving of censure? Absolutely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Almost always, in our society, the hallmark of people who’ll never have the power to do much of anything, much less the sweeping assaults they’re talking of? Doy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And of course, the whole “Punch a Nazi” and “Bash the Fash” conceits, combined with definition of “Naziism” and “Fascism” broad enough to cover, say, every single Republican, are the sort of mass dehumanization that leads us directly to…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…to what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t want to keep seeing the same hands, here. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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